Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables mass customization and has thereby the potential to revolutionize traditional manufacturing. In this paper, we examine how the adoption of AM affects competition and welfare in traditionally standardized product markets. Analyzing a game-theoretical model of...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a multi-actor tactical planning process that balances aggregate demand and capacities to deliver realistic production plans. The way demand is aggregated into product families (PFs) is crucial for the alignment sought by S&OP. The issue of gathering...

The ever-progressing digitalization of the economy and society is unlocking new opportunities for organizations engaging in services. We are in the middle of a transformation of the service sector that can be likened to the advent of mass production in the 1940s. Based on recent advances and...

We explore adoption of mass customization (MC) -- in place of mass production (MP) -- in a profit-driven competitive environment as a solution to the serious problem of overproduction (and all the environmental waste that it generates) endemic in the fashion industry. Building on a demand model...

This paper examines product return policies in an environment in which consumers differ by the return costs they experience themselves and impose on firms. We examine how firms use information about consumer return costs to customize product return payments, prices, and whether to permit returns...

Purpose: The actual market characteristic oriented toward customers' requirements compels decision-makers to foresee customization abilities. Mass customization represents a valuable approach to combine customizable offers with mass production processes. From a supply chain standpoint, this...

How to make a suitable decision by balancing the benefits and costs of Mass customization (MC) has been widely discussed by scholars. While with the development of information and production technology, some traditional factors that affect firms’ MC decision have significantly changed....

Problem definition: In high-product-variety businesses like fashion, mass production (MP) systems create environmental waste in the form of overproduction on a colossal scale. Mass customization (MC) has been proposed -- without solid evidence -- as a solution. In this paper, we analyze whether...

Additive manufacturing (AM), originally used for prototyping, is increasingly adopted for custom final part production across different industries. This usage brings new manufacturing opportunities for mass customization (MC). However, printing speed and production volume are two barriers to AM...

Additive manufacturing (AM) was initially designed for prototyping and product personalization, where high production quantities were not required. Now, it is also implemented for final part production to achieve cost-effective mass customization (MC). Thanks to its tool-less production and...

The digital transformation is creating a need for mass customization of tactical asset allocation. Asset managers publish tactical asset allocation qualitative views regularly. However, the construction of robust portfolios from such views at large scale is often over-simplified. We propose a...

Additive manufacturing (AM) was initially designed for prototyping and product personalization, where high production quantities were not required. Now, it is also implemented for final part production to achieve cost-effective mass customization (MC). Thanks to its tool-less production and...

Product configuration design combines the existing configurable components of enterprises to quickly form a new product that meets customised requirements. However, the representation, maintenance, and update of the configuration knowledge, and the mismatch problem restrict the rationality and...

1: Form Postponement Types and Market Contingencies: Toward an Isomorphism of Mass-Customization Strategies and Form Postponement Types -- 2: The Ghost in the Machine: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Role of Individuals in the Simultaneous Pursuit of Flexibility and Efficiency -- 3: The Role...